504 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY (eth. ann.43 



As soon as he finished his message then De'hae°'hiyawa"lvho°' 

 again went out-of-doors and again departed, and he went there to 

 the place where stood his bark lodge. 



Not a long time after he had returnd then De'hae'"liiyawa"kho'" 

 said, "Not, verily, perhaps, would it result in good that my brother 

 and I should be near together. Now verily he has revealed himself; 

 now he has distressed my mind in the things at which I am working. 

 So, perhaps, he and I must separate, for still, verily, I have matters 

 at which I will continue to work. So now thus verily, perhaps, I 

 shall do. So I will cut in two parts this floating island, so I will 

 thrust fresh water in the space between us, so he should not be able 

 at any time to cross the stream." 



Now at that time he went out and he started going to the shore of 

 water. He stood there at the very edge of the water, and now he 

 said, "Now this earth shall be divided. So you, these Waters, I cause 

 you to volmiteer that ye shall continue to be between, in the space 

 which is the distance these two earths shall continue to be apart." 

 So now De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" started and went there; he passed 

 himself through the very middle of the floating island. Now at 

 that time the fresh Waters were following him. He arrived on the 

 opposite side of the island; then he said, "Now verily I have com- 

 pleted it." Now at that time the Waters desisted. Now at that 

 time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho'" said, "Now verily my brother and I 

 have become separated." So then he went home. In a very short 

 time he returned to the place where stood his lodge. 



Some time afterwards O'ha'a' said, "My dear grandmother, now 

 verily thou and I have still left only a small quantity of meat. So 

 now I will go hunting there, so thou and I will continue to have suf- 

 ficient other meat when the amount which De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' 

 has given us will become exhausted." Now O'ha'a' went out-of- 

 doors; now verily he went to hunt. 



Now O'ha'a' went about from place to place and he was not suc- 

 cessful in seeing a game animal. It was a long time; on every side 

 of the island did he go to and fro. He became very tired, and then 

 he saw game animals. Just as soon as they saw him they at once 

 fled away, and there he watched them as they plunged into the water. 

 Now at that time he first noticed the island floating on the other 

 side, whither the game animals went. He saw them when they there 

 went ashore. 



At that tune O'ha'a' was astonished by the thmg that had come 

 to pass. Now verily he said, "Wait; let me go to tell De'hae°'hiy- 

 awa"kho°'. Not, perhaps, yet does he know the thing as it is, as I 

 saw it to-day." Now then he departed. He knew verily in what 

 direction stood the lodge of his brother. So thither then did he go. 



